The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday (September 3, 2026) accused the Congress party of having an “anti-Army” and “anti-Shri Ram Temple” mindset, citing the questions raised by Congress leader and former MP Rashid Alvi on the appointment of Air Marshal Jeetendra Mishra (Retd.) as the first CEO of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust.
Mr. Alvi is currently not a spokesperson or office-bearer in the Congress party. “These are the same people who used to call Prabhu Shri Ram imaginary, deny the existence of Ayodhya, and insult Ayodhya. These are the same people who used to turn the Sarayu (river) red with blood. Trivedi claimed. The Congress, through Mr. “I want to make it clear that Ghazni, Ghori and Babur did not come to loot temples. This is Leftist nonsense that the ‘urban Naxals’ and ‘ dimagi Naxals’ want to fill people’s minds with.
At a press briefing, BJP MP Sudhanshu Trivedi said Mr. Alvi’s statement reflected the Congress’s attitude of “insulting the Indian Army and the Shri Ram Temple” and described it as evidence of the “ dimagi Naxal” mindset. Targeting the Congress, he said its leaders demanded proof of the surgical strike, the Balakot strike, and called India’s Army chief a “ sadakchhap gunda “ (street thug). “These are the same people whose leader Navjot Singh Sidhu went and hugged Pakistan’s Army chief Qamar Bajwa,” Mr. Trivedi said. Even after the statements by Pakistan’s Prime Minister and President about ‘Operation Sindoor’, if the Congress still had doubts, anyone harbouring such doubts could only be a “ dimagi Naxal”, he alleged. Alvi, had said that Mahmud of Ghazni had come to loot the temple, Mr. They came to destroy temples and to break idols,” he said.
Once again today, a similarly insulting and condemnable statement has been made regarding the Shri Ram Mandir and Shri Ram Janmabhoomi,” Mr.
